THIS PLACE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK
Lasse Mouritzen
and Frida Robles



Love Canal
Elsa Bres


The Permanently Temporary
Cathy Smith and Natarsha Tezcan


A post-landscape handbook
Ed Wall


Tuning Space
Campbell Drake


Dear Testing Grounds / Fortuna Redux
Millie Cattlin and Joseph Norster


Evoke
Nic Quantock-Holmes
and Oli Brown


Mini Maddern
Public Realm Lab


Home as Hometown
DENARA - architecture studio


Glow: Monarch Lane
Christine Phillips and Tania Davidge


The Overlooked Chinese Terrain Vague: On Culture, Urbanisation, and Resilience
Jiatong Shi, Jillian Walliss


More trains, more often – soon, they promise
Yuchen Gao, Loren Adams, and Eugene Perepletchikov


DO YOU CARE?
Let’s reflect on the sea
Maria Pina Usai and Stefania Toro


Black Box Festival of Living and Dying Art
Kyle Bush


Belfry
Jinjoo Yang


Togethering
Lena Heubusch, Susana Moliner, and David Pérez


Drawing Fields
Outpost Office, Ashley Bigham, and Erik Herrmann


Kristall, The Domestication of Water
Daryan Knoblauch


The Field
Robert Snelling, Brittany Devlin, and Kate Donaldson


Windflower
Urban Radicals


The Waste Archive
Jesus Meseguer, Javier Arias, Mireia Ferri, and Connie Meseguer


Modul #3070
DELACAVE Architectes | Architectural Think Tank


New York has a High Line, Berlin has a Low Line
Studio ON/OFF


Dear Document Fukushima Paribartana Mohanty


Mapping Future Memory
Eleanor Peres and mone studio


Sydney Biennale:
Cockatoo Island
Philip crowther


Aqueous Landscapes
Ainslie Murray and Helen Lochhead


Other Spaces: Others' Spaces
Demet Dincer


Born to Die
Laura Syzman


Peripheral housing on the urban wasteland of Chinese cities
Weijie Hu


Terrain Vague; Neighboring Damascus
Sara Adam


Not yet another web
Ioanna Sotiriou


Weeds’ Analogy: From Industrial Debris to Data Urbanism
Kwan Q Li and Joel Austin Cunningham


Incompiuto (Unfinished) Alterazioni Video

New York has the High Line,
Berlin has the Low Line


by Dan Dorocic, Gianni Laneri , Michael Maginness, Samuel Carvalho, Berk Asal, Zoe Ritts, Sophie Marthe, Sinead Petrasek, Phillipp Von Hase, Juraj Horňak, Irvandy Syafruddin, Thijs Vleeschouwer, Zachi Raz-el, Alison Hugill, and Luka Murovec



LOCATION: BERLIN, GERMANY


The Questionarch is Berlin's answer to New York's High Line. It is located under an old train line that once connected East and West Berlin. The Questionarch is the public facing urban laboratory of the Berlin based interdisciplinary art and design collective ON/OFF. After spending almost a decade deploying temporary interventions that playfully interrupt ‘business as usual’ within public spaces, ON/OFF recognised the need for a more permanent space of research and reflection; a space that could be shared and open.
Questionarch is that space. It is an alternative and un-institutional space for studying the contested city – in particular its immediate context in Berlin’s rapidly gentrifying urban heart. It seeks to understand and operationalise the city’s social struggles and its material resources. Questionarch consists of an open workshop space (Fix-o-tek) and a video space (Vide-o-tek).


1. Mesto City shopping carts visits the Fixotek | image credit: Juraj Horňak


These two spaces sit adjacent to each other under the arches of what was, up until the second world war, a pedestrian tunnel under a railway line leading to one of the capital’s busiest stations. Throughout the cold war this area lay in the no-man’s land between east and west Berlin that skirted the Landwehrkanal, becoming a deserted and desolate urban wasteland. In 2009, ON/OFF and their friends began using this ambiguous, left-over space informally – as a storage shed, as a workshop and as a place for parties - gradually building more infrastructure into it as required.


2. Opening of the Videotek Arch | image credit: Dan Dorocic


Recently, they have transformed the arches into Questionarch; an active centre for critical urbanism. The arches provide a physical embodiment of the questions surrounding urban life in Berlin, questions ON/OFF tries to approach from an architectural and urbanist perspective. Questionarch’s program is based on values of participation, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and community building. Questionarch exists not only in an urban grey area, but an institutional and legal grey area too. It is increasingly accepted as part of the urban fabric but with no formal lease or title to the land.


3. Watching Films in the Videotek | image credit: Gianni Laneri Deforné


Its urban context fits its mission; sitting on a site that embodies Berlin’s embattled character. It is situated in the centre of what was Berlin’s countercultural heart and is now one of Berlin’s most desired neighbourhoods; wedged between the districts of Kreuzberg, Neukölln, and Alt-Treptow. On one side is one of Berlin’s largest and longest running squatted housing projects, on the other is a renovated 19th Century industrial building housing tech start-ups.



CONTRIBUTORS

Dan Dorocic, Gianni Laneri, Michael Maginness, Samuel Carvalho, Berk Asal, Zoe Ritts, Sophie Marthe, Sinead Petrasek, Phillipp Von Hase, Juraj Horňak, Irvandy Syafruddin, Thijs Vleeschouwer, Zachi Raz-el, Alison Hugill, and Luka Murovec